Keri Phillips: Hello this is Rear Vision with Keri Phillips. Today, the story of plastic.
TV commercial [archival]: When you look at plastic, you know how it helps things stay fresh and safe and light and unbreakable and strong and easy to carry, but take another look. Plastic also saves energy because it helps make cars lighter to save gas, and plastic insulation helps save energy at home. Even these strong plastic bags help save energy because they take less energy to make than other grocery bags. To learn more, call this number for a free booklet, and take another look at plastic.
Keri Phillips: A hundred years ago, almost everything in our daily lives would have been made of natural materials.[much of it as basketry] Our clothes would have been wool or cotton, our furniture wood and so on. Today, many of these natural products have been replaced by plastic and now you'll find plastic in just about everything we use. It's so ubiquitous we don't even really notice it.
Susan Freinkel is the author of Plastic: A Toxic Love Story. What exactly is plastic?
Susan Freinkel: Plastic is kind of a misnomer. Plastic isn't a single thing. Actually there are tens of thousands of plastics, and what they all ........CLICK HERE TO READ ON
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